this was co-authored by myself and my brother-in-law tom....it's a painted plaster mask from a clothing dummy that tom got at work at j.c. penny's....the dummy was life sized and tom liked to dress it and put it in unexpected places. once he put it on a busy sacramento street with a NEED FOOD sign hung around it's neck and someone with a sense of humor left a sack lunch at the feet of the dummy. he looked very real...especially when he had his earphones and shades on....